Radiation treatment delivery at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$235.20
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$672.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$78.97 with Renaissance vs $3,527.00 with United — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $78.97 | ↓ -66% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $109.68 | ↓ -53% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $109.68 | ↓ -53% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $109.68 | ↓ -53% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $109.68 | ↓ -53% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $109.68 | ↓ -53% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $109.68 | ↓ -53% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $110.78 | ↓ -53% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $111.87 | ↓ -52% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $111.87 | ↓ -52% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $112.97 | ↓ -52% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $115.16 | ↓ -51% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $117.36 | ↓ -50% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $117.36 | ↓ -50% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $131.62 | ↓ -44% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $148.07 | ↓ -37% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $153.55 | ↓ -35% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $164.52 | ↓ -30% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $164.52 | ↓ -30% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $164.52 | ↓ -30% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $164.52 | ↓ -30% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $164.52 | ↓ -30% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $168.91 | ↓ -28% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $169.09 | ↓ -28% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $181.44 | ↓ -23% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $188.16 | ↓ -20% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $200.33 | ↓ -15% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $204.32 | ↓ -13% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $208.32 | ↓ -11% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $243.13 | ↑ +3% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Transplant | $244.09 | ↑ +4% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $275.52 | ↑ +17% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $275.52 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $302.40 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $315.84 | ↑ +34% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $336.00 | ↑ +43% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $356.46 | ↑ +52% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $369.60 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $369.60 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $369.60 | ↑ +57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $373.41 | ↑ +59% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $403.20 | ↑ +71% |
| Aetna | Commercial|KelseyCare | $409.92 | ↑ +74% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $436.80 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $436.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $436.80 | ↑ +86% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $470.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $470.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $470.40 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $470.40 | ↑ +100% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $504.00 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $538.28 | ↑ +129% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $555.21 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $571.20 | ↑ +143% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $598.87 | ↑ +155% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $672.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $2,358.00 | ↑ +903% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $3,177.00 | ↑ +1251% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $3,527.00 | ↑ +1400% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $3,527.00 | ↑ +1400% |
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Radiation treatment delivery at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $235.20 | $181.44 – $672.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $257.87 – $2,589.98 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $257.87 – $2,589.98 |
| Adventhealth Rollins Brook | Lampasas | $1,305.36 | $542.50 – $542.50 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $1,200.00 | $97.38 – $1,500.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $1,800.00 | $297.05 – $2,700.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $1,800.00 | $97.38 – $2,250.00 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $1,200.00 | $97.38 – $1,500.00 |